Tippecanoe County

A Mexican restaurant that is part of a chain which has been under investigation by Marion and Tippecanoe county officials
will not have insurance funds seized from a bank account returned, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled Thursday.

Tippecanoe County is just one of a handful of sites across the nation participating in a special initiative designed to constrict
the flow of minors into the juvenile justice system and give them a second chance.

An Indiana man who admitted fatally stabbing and shooting a fellow Purdue University student inside a crowded classroom was
sentenced Sept. 19 to the maximum 65 years in prison after telling a judge he lied about being mentally ill.

A college newspaper sued Purdue University on Tuesday over its refusal to release surveillance video that editors said shows
a staff photographer being roughed up by police when he entered the building where a student had been fatally shot and stabbed.

A federal judge’s ruling declaring Indiana’s ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional doesn’t trump a clerk’s
religious convictions in one county. Elsewhere, county clerks are being instructed that it’s up to them whether they
issue licenses to gay couples.

A community corrections program has the authority to not accept a man after being released from prison because he kicked another
inmate in the face while assigned to a community transition program, the Indiana Court of Appeals held Thursday.

The Supreme Court wanted feedback on a pilot project using an audio-video record as the official appellate transcript in three
Indiana courts. Lawyers at a recent discussion on the topic appear to favor pulling the plug.

An appellate panel had harsh words for Purdue University’s conduct in shielding a report investigating a former chancellor’s
complaint of gender discrimination and harassment against former university president France Cordova.

A trial court’s order automatically awarding custody of a minor child to the father was reversed by the Indiana Court
of Appeals on the grounds the lower court’s decision violated the state’s custody modification statute.

A pilot project in three Indiana courts that replaces written transcripts with audio/video camera recordings has been extended
and expanded because two of the three courts haven’t generated the anticipated number of appeals necessary to evaluate
the system.

Terms of a non-compete clause in an agreement between an IT recruiter and his former employer are unreasonable, the Indiana
Court of Appeals ruled Monday in throwing out an injunction that barred the recruiter from similar employment.

A criminal defendant represented by counsel who unsuccessfully argued on his own to withdraw a guilty plea to a Class A felony
charge of dealing cocaine had a burden of proving manifest injustice, which he failed to do, the Indiana Court of Appeals
ruled Tuesday.

A Tippecanoe County man whose sentence enhancement for being a habitual offender was overturned by the Indiana Supreme Court
– but later re-imposed after a retrial – was unable to convince the Indiana Court of Appeals that his retrial
was barred by res judicata.

When Tippecanoe Deputy Sheriff Jonathan Lendermon got between some long-feuding neighbors in 2009, one of them, Jason Findlay,
suggested that he might have trespassed. It became clear to Lendermon the acknowledgement might have been recorded on video
surveillance.

The Indiana Supreme Court on Thursday reversed the part of a White Superior Court’s sentencing order that a man who
pleaded guilty to theft and being a habitual offender must serve his sentence consecutively with a case out of Tippecanoe
County.

A woman whose ex-husband committed suicide after his scheme to steal money from his employer unraveled must pay back to the
company money she received from her husband during and after their marriage, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled Monday.

A Tippecanoe County man appealing the issuance of a protective order against him lost his case before the Indiana Court of
Appeals Wednesday. The appellate court concluded that the evidence showed his wife is a victim of domestic violence.

Gov. Mitch Daniels announced Monday that he has selected Faith Graham to sit as judge of Tippecanoe Superior Court III. She
succeeds Loretta Rush, who was appointed to the Indiana Supreme Court in September and joined the high court this month.